NOISE SIGNAL SILENCE

PREMIERE: 27.10. 2023

FURTHER PERFORMANCES:

OCT. 29-31, 2023, AND NOV. 01-25-26, 2023, AND DEC. 21-22, 2023.


The collaboration between Richard Siegal and Alva Noto began in 2013, when the

US choreographer created his first ballet UNITXT based on the musical composition

of the same name for the Bavarian State Ballet. What was laid out a decade ago as

an artistic position on the relationship between ballet and technology now finds its

completion in the trilogy NOISE SIGNAL SILENCE. Alongside the energetic cult

choreography UNITXT will be OVAL, created for Staatsballett Berlin in 2019. The

music, composed especially for this finale of the trilogy, creates a charged, almost

hypnotic atmosphere in which twelve dancers move under a futuristic-looking, oval-

shaped light object. The intermediate piece is IN A LANDSCAPE, which was also

created for the Bavarian State Ballet in 2016: based on a musical collaboration

between Alva Noto and Ryūichi Sakamoto (the two also wrote the soundtrack for the

Hollywood film THE REVENANT), it is a dreamlike, enraptured ballet that is

characterized by a meditative inwardness, thus perfectly rounding off this

multifaceted trilogy.

Choreography/Stage: Richard Siegal
Music:
Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto
Costume:
Alexandra Bertraut, Konstanti Grcic, Richard Siegal, UY
Light:
Philipp Deblitz, Richard Siegal, Matthias Singer
Repetiteurs:
Ivy Amista, Evan Supple, Zuzana Zahradnikova
featuring Ballet of Difference Ensemble & Guests